On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:55:07PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Quoting: > > This is a completely illegal and non-sensical combination. POSIX requires > > timers if clock selection is supported, since clock selection > > instrinsically > > depends on timers. Furthermore POSIX.2008 requires timers and the monotonic > > clock in any case (they are *not* optional). > > > > So as already implied, your system is broken. It is your operating system, > > not > > VLC, that needs fixing. > > However from > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap02.html > one reads (quote): > * The following symbolic constants shall be defined by the implementation as > follows: > o Symbolic constants defined with the value 200809L: > _POSIX_CLOCK_SELECTION > ... > _POSIX_TIMERS > ... > > * The system may support one or more options (see Options) denoted by the > following symbolic constants: > _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK > > Who is right?
I'd say you are. _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK is indeed optional and not implied by _POSIX_CLOCK_SELECTION. It merely states that CLOCK_MONOTONIC is supported. Whether it makes sense to be able to select a single clock is another topic... -- Richard Braun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
